Jack Weatherford's book on the history of money was pretty good. Lots of tracing the transitional periods as valuables give way to abstractions give way to furt

Jack Weatherford's book on the history of money was pretty good. Lots of tracing the transitional periods as valuables give way to abstractions give way to further abstractions on the abstraction-- and documenting where they chafe (reliably, they do). https://www.amazon.com/History-Money-Jack-Weatherford/dp/0609801724 https://www.amazon.com/History-Money-Jack-Weatherford/dp/060...